13 Facts About Larry Sultan

Larry Sultan was an American photographer from the San Fernando Valley in California.

Larry Sultan taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978 to 1988 and at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco 1989 to 2009.

Larry Sultan was born on July 13,1946, in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish family.

Larry Sultan grew up in the San Fernando Valley, part of Los Angeles, California, where his parents moved when he was an infant.

Larry Sultan graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a bachelor's degree in political science, and received a master's degree in fine arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco.

Larry Sultan started his career in the 1970s as a conceptual photographer.

Larry Sultan then published Pictures From Home, a collection of photographs taken of his parents in the San Fernando Valley from 1982 to 1992, whose role was to question societal expectations of gender and aging.

Larry Sultan photographed Paris Hilton for Interview in his parents' bedroom in his childhood home.

Larry Sultan was an instructor of photography at his alma mater, the San Francisco Art Institute, from 1978 to 1988.

Larry Sultan then taught at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco as Chair of the Photography Department from 1993 to 1999, and as distinguished professor of art from 1989 to 2009.

Larry Sultan served on the board of trustees of the Headlands Center for the Arts from 1992 to 1998.

Larry Sultan was married to Katherine Sultan, known as Kelly Sultan.

Larry Sultan died of cancer on December 13,2009, at his home in Greenbrae, California.